The East Japan Railway Company says all services on two major lines in Tokyo are suspended due to a power outage. The Yamanote Line and the Keihin-Tohoku Line, two of the city's busiest routes, have been affected since Friday morning.

Japan has reported it posted a trade deficit for the fifth straight year in 2025 as exports were hit by President Donald Trump’s tariffs and a diplomatic rift with neighboring China

As of 9:50 a.m., the suspension affected the inner and outer loops of East Japan Railway’s Yamanote Line, the entire Keihin-Tohoku Line, and the section between Tokyo and Shinagawa stations on the Tokaido Line. The operator, also known as JR East, said Friday morning that it expects services to resume at 1 p.m.

Heavy snow and strong winds have forced airlines in Japan to cancel more than 100 flights on Tuesday, mainly on routes to and from Hokkaido and the Tohoku region in the north.

Thousands of travellers were affected by the flight cancellations. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The selloff left some hedge funds rushing to unwind losing trades, pushed life insurers to dump bonds, and caused at least one corporate bond investor to pull out of a multi-million dollar deal. The selling in Japan’s $7.6 trillion bond market began slowly, then seemed to hit all at once.

The company involved in the 2011 disaster restarted one of seven reactors at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, the world’s biggest nuclear power plant, in a test for Japan’s nuclear power industry.

A powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit Japan's Chugoku region, registering upper 5 on seismic intensity scale; no tsunami threat reported. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Japan restars a reactor at the world's largest nuclear plant nearly 15 years after the Fukushima disaster.

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